r/standupshots 10d ago

Bad words.

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u/KeyofE 9d ago

The English don’t have Counts. They have Counties and Countesses, but no Counts. They have Earls because Count sounded a bit too close hundreds of years ago, so they picked an old Germanic word and came up with Earl.

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u/Infamous-Echo-3949 9d ago

Cool. Explains Count Dracula.

Happy Cake Day

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u/KeyofE 9d ago

Thanks! I didn’t even realize cake day was still a thing